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The pedigree below shows the inheritance of a dominant allele of a gene in a family over several generation. Circles represent females and squares represent males. Shaded symbols indicate individuals carrying the allele. The pedigree suggest that the gene is on a nuclear chromosome, and not on a mitochondrial DNA, because

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C; maternal mitochondrial mutations are inherited by all of a mother's offspring

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